Dr. Lynn Rosenberg is a Senior Epidemiologist at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University and a Professor of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Medicine. Her research for the last three decades has focused on the health of African American women. She is a founder and leader for many years of the Black Women’s Health Study, a large follow-up study of the health of 59,000 African-American women from across the United States. The study has followed these participants since 1995 to assess risk factors for outcomes that include breast cancer and other cancers, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, uterine fibroids, systemic lupus erythematosus, sarcoidosis, and preterm birth. Risk factors assessed include behaviors and lifestyle factors, psychosocial stress, environmental factors such as urban form and air pollution, and genetic factors. In recent years, her research has focused on diseases and conditions that become important at older ages. Currently, she is leading a study to assess factors that increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders among Black Women’s Health Study participants. She is also a leader of a new study that will identify factors that adversely affect cognition in older women in the Black Women’s Health Study. Dr. Rosenberg is an author of over 500 scientific publications.